Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

RAMON

RAMON is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A municipality of Isabela, Philippines.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How RAMON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAMON as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #791 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe RAMON used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.02 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAMON performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#791 Rank among openers
Opening with RAMON left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #791 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
991
4 guesses
1,098
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
26%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

RAMON can come back 122 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
210 answers
199 answers
167 answers
147 answers
135 answers
117 answers
110 answers
57 answers
53 answers
48 answers
47 answers
41 answers
38 answers
37 answers
36 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for RAMON; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

R1A1M3O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Strategy after playing RAMON

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RAMON.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAMON:

14% chance
Suggested:
STILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SUITE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

14.3%
STILE 6.21 bits
8.8%
SUITE 5.35 bits
8.4%
SLATE 5.77 bits
7.0%
STOLE 5.20 bits
6.2%
TUILE 5.15 bits
5.7%
TRACE 4.95 bits
4.9%
STILE 4.82 bits
4.6%
SCOTE 4.70 bits
2.4%
BOITE 4.31 bits
2.2%
SLICE 4.37 bits

Research on RAMON

Game-tree analysis and word research for RAMON, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with RAMON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,864 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #521 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it RUHMOHN.

Rhymes with KNOWN PHONE ALONE SHOWN STONE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RAMON sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).